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Gargallo-garriga, Albert; Sardans, Jordi; Granda, Victor; Llusià, Joan; Peguero, Guille; Asensio, Dolores; Ogaya, Romà; Urbina, Ifigenia; Van Langenhove, Leandro; Verryckt, Lore T.; Chave, Jérome; Courtois, Elodie A.; Stahl, Clément; Grau, Oriol; Klem, Karel; Urban, Otmar; Janssens, Ivan A.; Peñuelas, Josep. |
Tropical rainforests harbor a particularly high plant diversity. We hypothesize that potential causes underlying this high diversity should be linked to distinct overall functionality (defense and growth allocation, anti-stress mechanisms, reproduction) among the different sympatric taxa. In this study we tested the hypothesis of the existence of a metabolomic niche related to a species-specific differential use and allocation of metabolites. We tested this hypothesis by comparing leaf metabolomic profiles of 54 species in two rainforests of French Guiana. Species identity explained most of the variation in the metabolome, with a species-specific metabolomic profile across dry and wet seasons. In addition to this “homeostatic” species-specific metabolomic... |
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Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00625/73686/73151.pdf |
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